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Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Peter Nichols
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Peter Nichols

Eleven The Ships and the Men William Fish Williams’s childhood homes, the ships Florida, Hibernia, and Monticello, were more alike than any three houses in a small suburban neighborhood. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Daniel Rasmussen

* * * In New Orleans, the planters convened a second set of trials, with the same purpose of establishing order through death. The first floor of the City Hall ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
1776 by David McCullough
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-27 | Author:David McCullough

The average British regular was in his late twenties, or about five years older than the average American soldier, but the average regular had served five or six years in ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Such Men as These by David Sears
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:David Sears

At this stage in his career, although still learning and still mastering the chopper’s quirky subtleties, Thorin was largely unfazed by the things that could go wrong—and so often did—in ...
( Category: Aviation March 25,2014 )
Spycraft by Melton; Robert Wallace; Schlesinger
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Melton; Robert Wallace; Schlesinger

The CIA’s other solution to the Castro problem drew TSD into the ultimately objectionable policy of sanctioned assassination. Both TSD’s chemistry branch and its explosive devices branch had the expertise ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions (2003) by Clyde Prestowitz
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-10 | Author:Clyde Prestowitz

THE ARMED ECONOMY The third important aspect of American militarism is economic. Just as it has sought to keep key countries as quasi-client states, so the United States has sought ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 25,2014 )
Out of Order by Sandra Day O'Connor
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

Swearing-in ceremony for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia, which took place in the East Room of the White House on September 26, 1986. (Photograph Credit 8.3) ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures March 25,2014 )
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Howard Zinn

Chapter 15 Self-Help in Hard Times The war was hardly over, it was February 1919, the IWW leadership was in jail, but the IWW idea of the general strike became ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton; John Stauber
mobi |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Sheldon Rampton; John Stauber

Arnold Gets a Hummer Politicians and terrorists are not the only propagandists who use fear to drive human behavior in irrational directions. A striking recent use of fear psychology in ...
( Category: Conventional March 25,2014 )
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran by David Crist
mobi |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:David Crist

Having sunk the Sahand and dispatched the Boghammers, Engler’s and Webb’s planes topped off with fuel from an air force tanker over Oman and went looking for some reported Boghammers, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans (Mammoth Books) by Lewis Jon E
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Jon E. [Lewis, Jon E.]

Geronimo, Apache Tiger Nobody ever captured Geronimo. I know. I was with him. Anyway, who can capture the wind? Daklugie, Nednhi Apache THE INVINCIBLE LEADER Five years had passed since ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Mary Pipher

Day 26—October 21, 1999 Class began with a stern lecture on politeness. The day before, a policeman had visited to answer questions about how the law worked. He was a ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 by Peter J. Westwick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter J. Westwick

Reengineering JPL • 233 Figure 15.1. The fi ve pillars of quality in Total Quality Management. Source: JPL 165, 2/18. tems engineering that had supported JPL for thirty years. Project ...
( Category: Propulsion Technology March 25,2014 )
Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past by Engelhardt Tom & Linethal Edward T
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-08-14 | Author:Engelhardt, Tom & Linethal, Edward T. [Engelhardt, Tom]

“The B-29: A Three-Billion-Dollar Gamble” “The B-29 and the Bombing of Japan” “The World’s First Atomic Strike Force” “The B-29 Superfortress ‘Enola Gay’” “The Missions” Sandwiched between the long second ...
( Category: Americas March 25,2014 )

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